Practical photography skills of the new baby

1. The light

We all know that the baby's eyes are still developing, I think even jump lamp, and no parents would be willing to take risks to their little baby to play flash! Natural light is absolutely baby the best choice, which is available by the window light, so if it is the day, some Suggestions push the baby went to the window and let in downy light outside the window.

2. Understand the baby's schedule/shooting Angle adjustment

Babies usually there will be a few hours in a day is a special waking or sleeping, it is a good time to capture the lens, suggest you parents use different perspective to capture their baby. After understanding the environment light, if the baby's eyes are open, so by adjust the Angle of camera and the baby, also can let the baby's eyes to produce light eyes, is the baby looks so much more alive!

3. The focus and shooting mode

Most of the time, the focus must pay attention to the eye in the baby close to you. Were it not for special needs, have suggested that the novice parents use camera to aperture priority mode. If the baby is on you, you can put an aperture is large, along with background or previous bokeh, let photos completely focused on the beautiful baby. But if the baby a little on your side, as the case is the best a two to three aperture, increase the depth of field, let the other side of the baby's face and eyes not too vague. If you take a big picture, please be sure to shrink aperture to shoot, so that all the characters to be able to clear.

4. The types of photos

A close-up of baby face must be parents in inside the camera, but in addition to face, don't forget the lovely hands and feet also is very good topic! If do spare capacity, be sure to take some baby milk, a shower, and interact with other family photos of myself. And in many relatives and friends of the visiting time, please be sure to leave precious family snapshot.

Large aperture shallow depth of field let baby subjects

5. Photo composition

As war photography master’s capa puts it: "if you take is not good enough, because you not close". Close-up shot baby, best will not block the light, the camera can focus close to the baby under the premise of, let him fill the camera's image, become the only protagonist. Compared to straight the baby in the picture, if his body inclined lay in the picture, if you can become more dynamic.

6. Foreground and background

Background as simple as possible, in principle, the bed of white, pure color of the walls is good background. Sometimes can timely use white quilt or the framework of the crib as former bokeh, let whole picture have qualitative feeling more.

Soft blanket as background simple clean

7. The use of props

Took baby hundreds of photographs, began to feel sick of it? Now might as well buy some color match bright props for the baby, whether it is a hat and toys, pictures can grace many!

Along with the prospect of baby body more clear

8. The correct exposure

Which is very important, is I think the baby pictures of most want to reveal a lovely, innocence and the feeling of hope, so often to show the Ming of the atmosphere? Because the camera the principle of photometry, if choose weighing type metering, when filled with white or light color object in the picture, the overall exposure will be lower than the naked eye can see, so please be sure to add exposure compensation! The author's habit is plus + 2/3 ~ + 1 range value, do it after finished. Whit the background of the image or dead white is not a big problem, the baby's face must have the correct exposure, and otherwise the whole photo should dull tasteless. If the function of the camera has a built-in highlights tonal give priority to, also suggested that open, can make highlights the details better, also reduce dead white.

9. The white balance adjustment

The camera's automatic white balance in today s is already quite accurate, but the white balance to the camera, but is not necessarily what we want. Group photo, for example, the large because want to express a warm atmosphere, with background both for qualitative material, wood so keep indoor light yellow hue. And this photo baby is at the window, but at the same time, by indoor yellow light irradiation, we adjusted the color temperature slightly cold, let the baby face more white, also let the background of natural light with a blue tint, improve photos of lasting appeal. Each photo Suggestions can try a lot different white balance, sometimes an unexpected effect.